Art: Ball & Spike

A motorcade of 300 bright floats, accompanied by even brighter fire
engines, motorized troops and limousines, wound through mildly
fascinated Manhattan crowds last week to a "World's Fair Rehearsal"
in Flushing Meadow Park. As the rolling snowball of Fair publicity thus
gained momentum one year from the finish line, Manhattanites began to
be aware of another ball"biggest ever built by man" which will be
white, hollow, 200 ft. in diameter, 18 stories high, and the Theme
Centre of the World's Fair. The steel frames of this Perisphere and the
Trylon (a three-sided obelisk...